Buttonhole-strip.



No. 870,988. PATENTED NOV. 12, 1907. L. S. NEWGOMB.

BUTTONHOLE STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3. 1906.

LOUISE S. NEWCOMB, NEW YORK,-N. Y.

BUTTONHOLE-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Application filed November 3.1 0s. Serial No. 341327.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUISE S. Nnwco'ms, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ready-Made Buttonhole and Button Strips, of which the following is a specification.- is

- The principal object of this invention is to provide a ready-made button-hole and button strip, and particu -larly a ready-made continuous button-hole and button strip, consisting 'of two separate strips buttbned together, one containing button-holes and the other buttons, which button-strip can be permanently connected with and made a part of a garment, as by sew-' the outer edges of the button-strip to opposing and forming part. of the present application I have.

illustratede single style of finishedcombined buttonhole and button strip, although it is to be understood that various other styles may be made in accordance with my invention. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a continuous combined button-hole and button strip in the form of a fabric-roll, the finished combined button-hole and button strip being wound upon a suitablereel; Fig. 2 is a plan of a short length of the fabric from which the button-hole strip or the button strip is made, before the folding of the fabric, and shows the fold-lines. Fig. 3 is a similar view of said strip after it is fully folded, 'and having finished stitched and cut button-holes at one end thereof, and uncut, with loops of button-hole stitching, at the other. end. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. is a view, similar to Fig. 3, of a. finished button strip, and Fig. 6 is a similar view of the finished button-hole strip and the finished button strip buttoned together and thus combined to form a finished combined button-hole and button strip.

Similar characters designate like-parts in all the figures of the drawing.

1 designates a short length of a strip or band of fabric, which may be of'any desired color, material, weight; texture, pattern, etc, to correspond to the material to which it is to be secured whenformed into a strip of ready-made button-holes or a readymade button strip, to either of which uses it is applil cable. In this strip 2, 3 and 4 indicate longitudinal fold-lines on which the strip of fabric may be folded tervals, of button-hole stitching. On account ofthe such a price as to permit the use of the combined button-hole and button strip to'advantage even on the cheapest kinds of apparel. The loops 9 in Fig. 3 are shown as disposed transversely of the strip and in parallelism with one another and also as extending through the inner edges of the narrow plies 7 and 8.

-When so formed it will be evidentthat they not only hold together the two main plies 5 and 6, but. also permanently connect the narrow plies 7 and 8 to the main plies. In the case of strips in which the button-holes run-lengthwise of the strip the button-hole stitching will not of course fasten the narrow plies-to the main plies, but it has been found in practice that the folding of these plies is sufficient to retain them in position, and that no additional line of stitching is required for this purpose.

Thevnext operatiomm the folded strip of fabric shown in Fig. 3 is that which finishes the button-holes and at the same time finishes the button-hole strip. ,This operation is the cutting or punching the button-hole between the parallel rows of button-hole stitching of each loop. This is done by a simple cutter in .a manboth sides of the respective main plies 5 and 6 of the fabric. In the construc tion shown fthis results in an extra thickness of the finished bottom-hole strip crosswise thereof from' a point beginning near the two-ply .edge of the finished strip and extending into the portion which is the thickness of four plies. This thickening resulting from the stitching is approximately equal to the extra thickness at the four-ply edge of the finished button-hole strip 11, and is sufficient to permit the winding of such stripbvenly 6h 2. reel. This is especially true when the button-hole loops extend crosswise of the strip, as in Fig. 3. p

The button-strip is or may be formed'irom astrip such as 1, as beforestated It is also folded on foldlineslocated as are those illustrated at 2, 3 and 4 in Fig. 2. The strip should be machine-folded, as in the "case of the fabric forming the button-hole strip, in order to reduce the cost of manufacture. This strip preferably, -as shown in Fig. 5, is in every respect identical with the strip shown in Fig. 3, so far as the dimensions n u J 3 and positions of the plies are concerned, and these plies are indicated by'the same reference characters, 5, 6, 7

and 8. This folding of the fabric of the original strip therefore produces at one edge of the button strip an extra thickness not found at the other edge and which is identical with the extra thickening found at one edge of the button-hole strip. This thickening is compensated for in the button strip by the buttons themselves, which, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, are located preferably centrally of the main plies on the strip and are disposed at the same intervals as the button-holes of the buttonhole strip,1l. These'buttons are of any suitable kind and size, and are indicated at 12. They are sewed in the usual manner, by a button-sewing machine, to the main plies 5 and 6, to which they are connected by the stitching 13 which permanently cpnnectsthe buttons and said plies. The thickeningre'sulting from the sew- ,ing on of these buttons is always equal to or greater than the extra thickness of the four plies-at one edge'of the finish'ed strip, and as in the case of the finished button-hole strip permits--the.wiirding of the finished button strip evenly on a reel. 3

- After the separate finished button-hole and button strips have been formed, as just'described, they are are secured to or pass through the thinner two-ply portions of'the button-hole strip and the button strip, are .atsribstahtially the center of the finished combined button-hole and button strip. Thus the thickness of the combined strip at the two opposite edges thereof practically balances-the thickness at the center of the combined strip when the finishedbutton-hole strip 11 and the finished button strip 14. are buttoned ogether, and the combined finished button-hole and button strip may. therefore be wound evenly on any suitable holder. A holder suitable for the purpose is shown in Fig. 1, the holder there shown being a relatively long and fiat reel 15, of cardboard or other cheap material, onto which the finished strip may be wound, as-shown, and from which it may be unwound and cut into sections of any desired length, and thus sold either in sections orxas a complete fabric-roll of finished combined button-holes and buttons. Q

What I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a continuous readymade button-hole strip, consisting .of a continuous strip .of fabric formed from a single piece of material folded longitudinally to form two plies at the free edge of-the strip and fourplies at the fastening edge thereof, and a continuous series of separated long,- narrow loops ofbutton-hole stitching passing, through the two plies of the fabric near one edge of the strip and through all four plies of the fabric near the other edge of the strip and located wholly in said strip of fabric.

Signed at New Yorli, in the county of New York, and\ State of New York, this 30th day of October, A D. 1906. f

' LOUISE-S. Nnwcomnl Witnesses:

C. S. CHAMPION, EDGAR A. FELLOWS. 

